Comics Youth SCIO

Improving wellbeing through comics creation and visual literacy, working with young people aged 8-25.

For enquiries, email: [email protected]

[Comics Youth SCIO @ComicsYouthSCIO]

We will be at TAGS Fest with our Summer School zines, and lots of amazing comics and graphic novels by our young people at @Comicsyouth! 💖✏️🌈

[TAGS Fest 🏷️ @TAGSfestival]

📢 Exhibitor announcement: COMICS YOUTH CIC (@Comicsyouth)

"Comics Youth CIC is a youth organisation using comics to help young people aged 8-25 with their mental health and well being through art, literacy and activism."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at https://t.co/UC96ydTC7l

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

Yesterday participants,friends, family and staff from our Building Stories Summer School’ reconnected to celebrate the success of this collaborative project! We presented the finished published zines to our talented artists! Well done to everyone involved! @ComicsYouthSCIO

[Comics Youth SCIO @ComicsYouthSCIO]

We have had two fabulous weeks delivering our Building Stories summer school, which was made possible by generous funding from @TNLComFundScot. Every young person has been absolutely brilliant, and we will be releasing TWO zines of their amazing comics creations soon! Stay tuned!

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

Today at building stories comic summer school was all about developing a short story involving our characters from yesterday! We tried different methods of writing stories, and were encouraged to share ideas with the group! #comics #summerschool #creativelearning #youngpeople

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

It’s our second day of building stories comic summer school with @ComicsYouthSCIO and today our main focus has been making our first character profile! #comics #creativelearning #youngpeople #summerschool #themcmanus

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

Day 1 of Building Stories’ comic summer school in collaboration with @ComicsYouthSCIO ages 14-18. We got to know each other by making badges. We explored the galleries to collect some inspiration to begin drawing our very own ‘Museum of Me’ zines! #comics #youngpeople #summer

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

Today marks the end of our building stories’ comic summer school for ages 8-13 years! This project has been in collaboration with @ComicsYouthSCIO A massive Thank-you to all our amazing and very talented participants!! we really hope you have enjoyed the week as much as we have!

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

Day 3 of building stories Comic Summer School, today we worked on developing a reflective story! We Tried different methods of writing stories, and creating a character who is a reflection of ourselves! @ComicsYouthSCIO #comic #summerschool

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

Day two of our ‘building Stories’ comic summer school in collaboration with Comics Youth SCIO. We have been exploring what makes a good character, and drawing inspiration from the collection to help us create our own! @ComicsYouthSCIO #comic #summerschool #free #creativelearning

[Comics Youth SCIO @ComicsYouthSCIO]

A fabulous first day shaping up to be a lovely week. 😁✏️

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

First day of our ’building stories’ comic summer school with @ComicsYouthSCIO today! We are off to fantastic start and having loads of fun getting creative! Today we got to know each other and our task was to imagine and create a ‘museum of me’ zine! #BuildingStories

[The McManus @McManusDundee]

FREE comics summer school delivered in partnership with @ComicsYouthSCIO

Young people will spend a week in the museum creating characters & bringing stories to life, & will be published in a zine! Very limited spaces available. Contact [email protected]

[Comics Youth SCIO @ComicsYouthSCIO]

For any young people who would like to know what the summer school will look like day by day, session plans are available! Just send us a DM or get in touch with [email protected] to sign up.✨

[Comics Youth SCIO @ComicsYouthSCIO]

We are a new charity based in Dundee, building on the fantastic work that @Comicsyouth has been delivering in Merseyside for the past several years.

Our goal is to improve wellbeing through comics creation and visual literacy, working with young people aged 8-25.

[Comics Youth SCIO @ComicsYouthSCIO]

Our first project is a FREE comics summer school, delivered in partnership with @McManusDundee. Young people will spend a week in the museum creating characters and bringing their stories to life, and will be published in a zine! Spaces are still available, sign up info below ⬇️

[Comics Youth 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Comicsyouth]

This new and exciting partnership will allow us the space and capacity to do something we’ve always dreamed of at CY and set up branch models of our work in Dundee, Manchester, and beyond 💃

[Comics Youth 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Comicsyouth]

📢Exciting news alert - we're officially a @chimotrust supported organisation!

We feel incredibly privileged to be working with a Trust, much like us, that values young people's lived experiences and strives to have a positive impact on their mental wellbeing.